In abstract reasoning, you may get questions that include letters.

When you do see this, what you should note is that as abstract reasoning is non-verbal, when you do see letters, they are characters that represents an image or a part. Just like if a symbol were used instead.

To deal with these questions, the underlying pattern is most commonly one where the “letter” represents a certain non-verbal image and if joined with another letter, may modify the image.

To separate it out, letters in abstract reasoning question have:

• Common letter (one that is generally repeated) - make sure that if you have a group of letters, that you consider each one individually.
• Modifier letter (one that changes the look of the common letter).

Therefore, to answer these types of questions, you need to:

1. Find common repeating letters.
2. See associated repeating images.
3. Associate 1 & 2.
4. Find modifier letters.
5. See how the modifier letters change the repeating images.
6. Create a pattern statement and then use that pattern statement to find the answer.

Because abstract reasoning involves visual pattern detection, let’s apply this to the following question/s.

Example Question/s

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Key Rules to remember

• Look at what’s common and what’s not to find a relationship between the image presented and the letter.
• Then, look at the modifiers to see how the ‘original’ has been changed and then apply the pattern detected to find the answer.

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